Amen Jackie. Jimmy Frey would recant his book if he was 10% of the man he portrayed himself to be. What slays me now is how so many people that have read the book are supporting him. I think they are in denial of being duped.

I agree, Hippoplatypus. And the lie itself runs very deep. From what I understand, the most important rule of support groups for recovering addicts is that the recovering addict must stop lying. There's no degree; there's no qualification for "emotional truth." It's stop lying. Period. And Frey, a so-called recovering addict, disregards this by embellishing the truth (no matter how large or how small) in his book.

And that's completely separate from the other issue, which is how Doubleday and Oprah have created the category of "nonfiction novels" or "truish non-fiction."